Scott Schweikart joins Ethics Talk to discuss his article: “AMA Code of Medical Ethics’ Opinions Related to Clinicians in Government.”

In the September 2014 issue on physicians as agents of social change, Dr. Audiey Kao, editor-in-chief of Virtual Mentor interviewed Dr. Rajiv Shah, administrator of the United States Agency for International Development or USAID.

Dr Olivia Kates talks about appropriate use of antibiotics during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The adverse health effects of climate change should be the focus of physician advocacy efforts and of conversations between physicians and their patients.

The ethical reasons for making gamete donation nonanonymous and allowing offspring to have access to donor information.

Physicians need to become more involved in the public debate regarding issues of medicine, science, and evolution.

Physicians should take part in public health advocacy to improve health care for all patients.

The possibilities of pre-conception selection of gender and character traits of children pose many moral and ethical questions.

Low-cost in vitro fertilization (LCIVF) is better than no infertility treatment in countries that prohibit adoption and third-party reproductive assistance.

False health information can harm, so hosts and writers of website content, clinicians, and patients are all responsible for jointly appraising the quality of online content and preventing the spread of misinformation.